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№ 553 x

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17 November 2011

Hammer Price:
£7,500

St. Vincent, Grenada-St. Vincent, ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, PORTUGAL, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, date off flan, obv. countermarked with incuse s twice near the edge and once on a central plug, later countermarked with script jr raised within an oval indent over an incuse s on the plug, and incuse g thrice spaced around the circumference, rev. countermarked with script is raised within a rectangular indent, 11.61g/179.1gr/7.46 dwt (Gordon 106, this coin). Coin about fine but very heavily clipped, countermarks fine to very fine, of the highest rarity £4,000-5,000

Provenance: H.M. Lingford Collection; R.J. Ford Collection; bt R.C. Gordon